The Alien Encounters is a 1979 science fiction

Science fiction

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 film

Film

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 written and directed by James T. Flocker. It is an American B movie

B movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

 which follows the story of an investigator who is sent to locate an alien probe

Space probe

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 which has landed on Earth

Earth

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. Aliens from Barnard's Star

Barnard's star

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 have created a machine known as a betaron which has remarkable rejuvenating effects.

Described by leading science fiction author David Wingrove

David Wingrove

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 in his Science Fiction Source Book as a "Deathly dull B-movie UFO story with dire effects and no real encounters at all...Endless desert scenes and interminable talk-overs disguise crank concerns of writer/director James T. Flocker", the film received generally poor reviews.

Filmed in and around the Calico Mountains (California) including Mule Canyon Rd. and scenes on the lake bed, off Ghost Town Road and Interstate 15, 7 miles north of Barstow, Ca.

Cast

Actor	Role
Augie Tribach	Allan Reed
Matthew Boston	Steve Arlyn
Phil Catalli	Wally
Bonnie Henry	Elaine Stafford
Patricia Hunt	Mrs. Arlyn
Amy Ballor	Melissa
Skye Tollefson	Laurie
Steve Abbott	Rancher
Chris Love-Jackson	Susan Reed
Lukas Jackson	Luke Reed
Gene Davis Gene Davis (actor) Eugene M. "Gene" Davis known for playing the psychotic killer Warren Stacy in the 1983 film 10 to Midnight with Charles Bronson; he also played a killer in another Bronson vehicle, 1988's Messenger of Death...	Man In Black #1
Mark Purdy	Man In Black #2